*Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG) in the Seanad. POTENTIAL for building a second emergency department in the Mid-West will be reviewed next year, the Minister for Health has said.
*Donal Carey with his sons Donal Jnr and Joe. CLARECASTLE’S Donal Carey (FG) has been hailed as a “a political hero” following his death.
CLARE’s senior footballers will face All-Ireland champions Kerry in the semi-final of the Munster championship.
*O’Callaghans Mills captain, Aidan O’Gorman. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. O’CALLAGHANS MILLS have dipped into their reserves more than ever to bounce back to the senior grade at the first attempt which has also propelled them to a Munster intermediate final.
*Ballaghboy. ENNIS politicians have said they are “duty-bound” to highlight the dangers for ‘unsupervised Traveller children’ who are at risk of an accident due to the absence of a footpath from the Quin Rd to the Ballaghboy site with principals describing it as “an accident waiting to happen”.
*Lisdoonvarna. HEALING waters of Lisdoonvarna “is actually damaging to the roads,” the area’s local councillor quipped this week.
*Éire Óg’s Shane O’Donnell. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. GOING from winning a first Clare SHC title with Éire Óg to preparing for a Munster club final has been a “surreal” experience for Shane O’Donnell.
*Packed corridors at UHL. NO NEW hospital will be built in Ennis and instead a new site in close proximity to University Hospital Limerick (UHL) will be constructed, as per new plans unveiled by the Minister for Health.
Áras Contae an Chláir AN EIGHT percent increase in commercial rates has been approved by elected members of Clare County Council.
FEAKLE’s Adam Hogan has been awarded a Gold Scholarship from Mary Immaculate College (MIC).